Sustainable Tourism Development: Issues, Challenges, and Practices

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Sustainable Tourism Development
Abstract
This report intends to find reasons behind issues in sustainable tourism development
that impacts stakeholders and management approaches. This paper will provide with key
definitions of sustainable and responsible tourism alongside challenges and practices that
determines relationship between responsible tourism practices and tourism development
sustainability. All the research articles and seminal papers have been gathered to make
critical review and in-depth analysis to demonstrate sustainability practices in different
destinations. This paper will also review about ethical tourism concept and waste
management techniques that can significantly contribute in tourism sustainability. The
tourism development approaches identified and analysis made reveals that there is a positive
influence of responsible tourism practices in bringing tourism sustainability in the long-run.
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Sustainable Tourism Development
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Research strategy.......................................................................................................................3
Literature review........................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Recommendations....................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
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Sustainable Tourism Development
Introduction
While tourism management companies are paying considerable attention, there are
very little evidences that reflects significant changes in tourism practices (Moscardo &
Murphy, 2014). This paper will discuss the reasons behind lack of changes seen and what
contributions are been made by tourism companies like tour operators, park official and
hoteliers while attempting responsible tourism practices. This paper will provide its readers
and tourism companies with critical insights upon ethical tourism behaviour, waste water
management, rural areas tourism development and other matter like how preservation of
tourism resources can ascertain long term sustainability within tourism destination. This
paper intends to analyse the issues and key discussions in research papers to make critical
evaluations while addressing the report topic on how contemporary issues impacts the
sustainable tourism development and on different stakeholders and management approaches.
After making a critical review, this report will recommend alternative frameworks that can
help tourist destination management and stakeholders adhere global systems and principles of
sustainable tourism development.
Research strategy
The research strategy adopted in this report is collection of data from sources which
are available both electronically and manually. The majority of sources collected for this
report includes keywords like sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, ethical tourism,
stakeholders and management representatives in tourist destination that were typed in Google
Scholar and sourced from University library. The articles selected mostly belonged to
journals from ‘Tourism Management Perspectives’, ‘International Journal of Hospitality
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